Bronze Medal in the category « Night Views »

I am a Flâneur. Flânerie, simply put, is an art of strolling and looking. In her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography, Susan Sontag describes how, since the development of hand-held cameras in the early 20th century, the camera has become the tool of the flâneur.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, a connoisseur of empathy, he finds the world “picturesque.”

Night is his preferred time for Flânerie, more interesting to me than day. Actually, not only for photography – I am a night bird. I created this series while wandering across the streets of Tel Aviv in the late-night hours of autumn 2022. I like to keep a distance from the people I shoot. Many look like shadows. This time I shot in black and white. I feel closer to the outcome I want. Hopefully, the viewers will find those images interesting.